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EU bars Chinese firms from major state medical equipment contracts
EU bars Chinese firms from major state medical equipment contracts
Business and Economy
by  AFP

The European Union on Friday banned Chinese firms from government medical device purchases worth more than five million euros ($5.8 million) in retaliation for limits Beijing places on access to its own market. The European Commission said in a statement the move was in "response to China's longstanding exclusion of EU-made medical devices from Chinese government contracts."

Crude sinks as Trump delays decision on Iran strike
Crude sinks as Trump delays decision on Iran strike
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Oil prices tumbled Friday and equity traders fought to end a volatile week on a positive note after Donald Trump said he would consider over the next two weeks whether to join Israel's attacks on Iran. "President Trump's two-week 'thinking window' on whether to join Israel's war against Iran is no cooling-off period -- it's a ticking volatility clock."

'Turkish salmon': the Black Sea's new rose-coloured gold
'Turkish salmon': the Black Sea's new rose-coloured gold
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Sitting in his spacious office with a view of the Black Sea, Tayfun Denizer smiles: his rainbow trout, raised in submerged cages, have made him a wealthy man. Last year, the country exported more than 78,000 tonnes of trout raised in its cooler northern Black Sea waters, a figure 16 times higher than in 2018.